On This Day in HISTORY

1528 – Gustav I of Sweden is crowned, the first king from the House of Vasa line

1554 – Bayinnaung becomes King of Burma, then goes on to assemble the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia, which includes much of modern-day Burma, Chinese Shan states, Lan Na, Lan Xang, Manipur and Siam

1673 – Rosalba Carriera born, successful Venetian Rococo painter, noted for portrait miniatures, beginning with snuff box lids, and pastel work; made an ‘Accademico di merito’ by the Roman Accademia di San Luca, the title for non-Roman members

1711 – Gaetano Latilla born, Italian opera composer

1724 – Frances Brooke born, English novelist, essayist, playwright and translator; she spent time in Quebec, Canada, where her husband was serving as a military chaplain, and wrote The History of Emily Montague there, believed to be the first novel written in Canada, but it was published in England upon her return

1729 – Edmund Burke, Irish philosopher-orator-politician, born; Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, On American Taxation – “If that sovereignty and their freedom cannot be reconciled, which will they take?”

1773 – The Charleston Museum, America’s first public museum, is founded in Charleston NC

1799 – Priscilla Falkner Bury born, English Botanist and Illustrator, A Selection of Hexandrian Plants; her work was admired by John James Audubon and Wilfrid Jasper Blunt

1856 – John Singer Sargent born, American painter

Self-Portrait 1907, by John Singer Sargent

1863 – Swami Vivekananda born, Indian Hindu monk-philosopher; key figure in introducing Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world, raising interfaith awareness, and increasing Hinduism’s status as a major world religion

1866 – The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London

1873 – Spiridon Louis born, Greek runner who won the first modern-day Olympic Marathon in the 1896 Summer Olympics, becoming a national hero

1874 – Laura Adams Armer born, American writer, photographer and artist; her book Waterless Mountain won the 1932 Newbery Award; Adams Armer photographs of San Francisco’s Chinatown, and extensive photos of the lives and culture of the Navajo and Hopi people are now part of museum collections in the San Francisco area and Santa Fe NM

1876 – Jack London born, American author and adventurer

1878 – Ferenc Molnár is born in Budapest, American playwright; Liliom (adapted as the musical Carousel), The Guardsman, The Swan, The Good Fairy

1884 – “Texas” Guinan born, American entertainer-producer, “The Queen of the West,” an early female emcee who opened a speakeasy in New York called the 300 Club during Prohibition; credited with coining “butter and egg men” and “give the little ladies a great big hand”- greeted her patrons with “Hello, suckers!”

1882 – The Holborn Viaduct Electric Light Station in London, a pioneering public steam power station which services both public lighting and the needs of private consumers opens, using Edison incandescent lamps for street lighting

1895 – National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, aka the National Trust, is founded by Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Hardwicke Rawnsley

1908 – A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time

1915 – U.S. House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote

1916 – Ruth Rogan Benerito born, American chemist, a pioneer in development of wash and wear and stain resistant fabrics

1918 – Finland’s “Mosaic Confessors” law goes into effect, making Finnish Jews full citizens, eliminating restrictions on movement, place of residence, and employment

1928 – Vladimir Horowitz debuts as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall, NYC

1930 – Jennifer Johnston born, Irish novelist; The Old Jest, set during the Irish War of Independence, won the 1979 Whitbread Book Award; The Captains and the Kings won Author’s Club First Novel Award (1973)

1930 – Glenn Yarbrough born, American folk singer, The Limeliters

1932 – Hattie Caraway (D-AR) becomes the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate

1936 – Jennifer Hilton born, Metropolitan Police of London Commander awarded the Queen’s Police Medal in the 1989 Birthday Honours; now Baroness Hilton of Eggardon, life peer and Member of the House of Lords since 1991

1941 –Dame Fiona Caldicott born, British psychiatrist and psychotherapist; Chair of the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and a past President of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy; first woman President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (1993–1996) and its first woman Dean (1990–1993); Chair, National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care (2011-2013)

1942 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board

1943 – The Office of Price Administration announces that standard frankfurters/hot dogs/wieners would be replaced by ‘Victory Sausages’

1944 – Cynthia Robinson born, American trumpeter and vocalist with Sly and the Family Stone, the first woman trumpeter in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

1946 – Hazel Cosgrove born, Lady Cosgrove, Scottish lawyer and judge; first woman Sheriff of Glasgow and Strathkelvin; first woman appointed as a Senator of the College of Justice; served as a judge on Scotland’s Supreme Courts (1996-2006); Deputy Chair of the Boundary Commission for Scotland (1997-2006)

1948 – Britain’s first supermarket opens at Manor Park, run by the London Co-Op

1948 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Sipuel v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma that state schools cannot discriminate against qualified law-school applicants because of race if there is no equivalent state institution for people of color – Thurgood Marshall was the primary attorney for Ada Lois Sipuel

1949 – Kukla, Fran and Ollie, a Chicago-based children’s show, makes its national debut on NBC-TV

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